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After all, the very ideas of life boats was absurd. The Titanic was unsinkable. I am sure the few lucky survivors of that disaster would be most impressed with the Committee's views. William Holden Clafin '65. David Griffiths '64 Tod Gitlin...
...Nation's Future. A weekly, hour-long series of debates. Gitlin started by making a list of 50 "impossible" opponents, e.g., Ben-Gurion and Nasser, is still trying to line up as many as possible. The first, hardly sensational encounter, on Nov. 12, joins Atomic Scientists Edward Teller and Leo Szilard on disarmament...
...Outside Gitlin's domain is one of NBC's greatest assets this year: Robert Saudek's memorable Omnibus, which, after a season off the air and years of scuttling back and forth between networks, resumes on NBC next month. The first show studies the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used their power...
...well-publicized stir created by Gitlin's NBC projects, his old network under CBS News President Sig Mickelson still holds the most solid ground in information programs. Among the news shows and durable holdovers...
...audiences than a great many entertainment programs. But more and more sponsors are beginning to realize that the prestige and good will gained with a good information program can be more important than ratings. An unprecedented number of public-affairs shows this season are sponsored. Says NBC's Gitlin: "We want no charity in this area. The days of the Sunday afternoon intellectual ghetto are gone." But it still takes courage for a sponsor to go all the way downwind with a good public-affairs program. The most notable example this season is the Bell & Howell Camera Co., which...